Polycrisis Network Seminar Series: The polycrisis and social democracy

Friday 09 May, 12.00–13.00, hybrid (Baines Wing SR (1.06) and online)

Are current political, economic and social disorders overlapping and combining to create a distinct and unprecedented period of polycrisis?

In this seminar, Dr Colm Murphy, a lecturer in British Politics at Queen Mary University London, will use historiography to explore the current social, political and economic landscape and examine whether it could be considered more severe and consequential than any other set of crises in recent history.

He will also share insights as to what is distinct about the polycrisis framework, and will look at how the concept of polycrisis risks disabling the agency of social democrats to respond to the challenges they confront, while presenting possible routes out of this trap.

The talk will be followed by a Q&A session.

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